
UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
LESSON 1. READING
I. Objectives:
1. Education aims: Students read about the changes in the country life.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Knowledge about the country life.
b. Language: Verb tenses and reported speech. Vocabulary about country life
3. Skills: - Speaking: talk in pairs and in groups.
- Reading comprehension: matching and table completion
exercises.
II. Anticipated problems: - Students may lack of vocabulary about country life .
III. Teaching aids: board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
1. Warm-up: (4 mins)
Aims:
- Get used to the topic.
- Sts are required to work in groups of 3 or 4 to
make a list of words related to the country in written
form.
- The group with the longest list will be the winner.
2. Before you read: (10 mins)
Aims:
- Prepare information and vocabularies for the
topic.
- Introduce the topic of the reading passage.
a. Pair work:
-Ask sts to work in pairs to answer the questions
given in the part.
-Gather the ideas and help the sts to give correct
answers.
b.Vocabulary:
- Provide the sts with new words/phrases.
+Straw(n): dry cut stalks of various cereals
+Mud(n) : wet, soft soil
+Technical high school (n):
+Farming method (n):.
+Brick house (n): houses made of bricks
+Thank to(prep): = owing to = because of
- Read each word/phrase 3 times and ask sts to
repeat it.
- Listen and check.
3. While you read: (20 mins)
- Aims: Read the passage for information to do the
tasks.
+ Task 1:Vocabulary Matching.
- Ask sts to read the passage and do task 1: Match
the words in A which appear in the reading passage
- Give the lists to the teacher
- Work in pairs.
- Do the work orally in front of the class.
Suggested answers:
1. The farmers are harvesting the crop
2. They are working very hard.
3. It’s a good/ bumper crop.
4. Good farming methods, good varieties,
modern technology used, people work
hard.....
- Listen and then copy down
- Read the passage and then do the task.
- Share their answers with their partners.
- Report their work .
+1–b+2–d
+3–a+4–e+5–c
- Work individually
- Study the table.
- Discuss the answers with a friend.
- Report their answers.
Few families had
a radio or a TV
set
Many families
have a radio
or a TV set
- Work in pairs to ask and answer the
questions.
- Ask sts to report their work in pairs.